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A message from the Chairman 4Annual Conference 2019 5What the young don’t want 7The Peter Toon Memorial Lecture 8Peter Toon and the Order for the Visitation of the Sick 9

David Martin: obituary 11Meg Pointer: obituary 12The Prayer Book at work 13Gyles Brandreth on the language of the BCP 14Welcome to our new Trustee 14Co-ordinator’s column 15Celebrating with Old Wine in Cambridge 16Correspondence 18A perfectly formed small Corporate Member 21News from the Branches 22PBS Trading List 26Forthcoming Events 28Branch contacts 30

CONTENTS

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At this year’s Annual General Meeting of thePrayer Book Society, I announced that I havecome to the difficult decision to step down as

Chairman when a successor has been found (at theearliest, at the 2020 AGM).

I have been Chairman for approximately twelveyears—since October 2007—prior to which I wasDeputy Chairman since 2005 and a Trustee since2003 (when the Board of Trustees was firstestablished in its present form), having previouslyheld a variety of other offices. My first formalposition within the Society was Secretary of theOxford Branch in 1991, some twenty-eight yearsago!

Over that time, I have seen many changes, as theSociety has responded to the evolving landscapewithin the Church of England: I shall say more aboutthat when I relinquish the chairmanship. Meanwhile,however, the Society is currently in good heart: thereis increasing interest in the Book of Common Prayer,including among ordinands and young clergy, andwe are recruiting new members. There arechallenges, to be sure, but they are positive ones, andthe Board of Trustees has adopted the following as its‘2030 vision’:

People of all ages finding life in Christ through agrowing Prayer Book service in every Benefice.

Overall, it seems to me that the time is right to handover the reins to a new Chairman, who can lead theSociety into the next stage of its development.

To that end, a search committee has beenestablished to identify a potential successor (whowill, of course, still be subject to election by themembership at the AGM). The search committee ischaired by my Deputy Chairman, David Richardson,and the other members are: Hilary Rudge (CompanySecretary and Trustee); the Revd Dr Daniel Newman(Trustee); and George Comer (member of theBranch Representatives’ Council). Please hold themin your prayers. David Richardson can be contacteddirectly by e-mail at david.richardson@pbs.org.uk orvia the Prayer Book Society office at Copyhold Farm.

Prudence Dailey

A message from the Chairman

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August saw members of the Prayer BookSociety gather for our Annual Conference,once again at the Royal Agricultural

University in Cirencester. Although the weather fellbelow expectations, the talks were of a consistentlyhigh standard, and were interspersed with PrayerBook worship in the university’s attractive chapel.

The Conference opened with sung Evensong,with a sermon from the Revd Dr Nick Moore ofCranmer Hall Theological College, Durham. Hepreached on Psalm 78, being the Psalm set for thefifteenth evening (and the second-longest in thePsalter). The Psalm was said (rather than sung) in fullduring the service, with the canticles and responsessung by the congregation. On some previousoccasions, when Conference-goers have included anumber of musicians, we have been lucky enough tohave an informal choir: this was not one of thoseyears, but it is reassuring to note that a congregationsufficiently familiar with the tradition can still singEvensong quite satisfactorily without choral support.

After the service, the opening speaker was theRevd Canon Patrick Woodhouse, former CanonPrecentor of Wells Cathedral and author of Life in thePsalms: Contemporary Meaning in Ancient Texts (2015), whospoke on the use of the Psalms in contemplativeprayer.

On the Friday morning, the Conference heard

from the Revd Adam Gaunt, Rector of Loftus-in-Cleveland and Carlin How with Skinningrove, aBenefice in a very deprived area on Teeside. Againstall the odds, he and his Director of Music had set upa successful traditional choir consisting of children

Annual Conference 2019

Professor John Goldingay speaks, as the Revd DrStephen Edmonds, Trustee, listens

A rush for the bookstall

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from the local area, who weresinging the Psalms to AnglicanChant (as well as the PrayerBook creed to Merbecke).Conference-goers were soimpressed by his vision andenthusiasm that a spontaneouscollection raised over £700towards his organ restorationfund.

He was followed by theRevd Professor John Goldingay,a former Principal of St John’sCollege, Nottingham, ProfessorEmeritus of Fuller TheologicalSeminary, California, and aprolific author on the OldTestament (including thePsalms). His addressconsidered how Christiansmight understand the Psalmstheologically.

The after-dinner speakeron Friday was the Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie, authorof the best-selling A Field Guide to the English Clergy(2018), curate of Liverpool Parish Church, and long-time enthusiast for the Book of Common Prayer.

The final speaker, on the Saturday morning, wasDr Austen Saunders, speaking on the language of thePsalms. Dr Saunders works at the Bank of England

helping to make policy for regulating banks andinsurers; but—more relevantly to the theme of theConference!—is also an expert on the history of thebook in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England,and a member of the editorial team preparing a newedition of the works of Thomas Traherne.

The Conference concluded with sung Matins andLitany.

This was the first time that the Society’s AnnualConference had taken place in mid-August ratherthan in September. This was intended to make itaccessible for teachers, school chaplains, and otherswho cannot attend once the school term has started.While there were an encouraging number of newfaces (as well as many familiar ones), the number ofBursarians (i.e. clergy, ordinands and young peoplein receipt of a Conference bursary) was significantlyreduced. It appears that August is not a good time formany of them (including for some of the clergy whoare committed far in advance to conduct summerweddings).

Next year’s Conference will therefore take placefrom Thursday 3rd to Saturday 5th September 2020,returning to the Royal Agricultural University. It ishoped that these dates might be more convenient forsome of those who could not make it this year, whilestill falling before the start of the school term. Pleasemake a note in your diary now!

Photography by George Redgrave

Dr Austen Saunders (L) is introduced by the Chairman

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Gloucester Branch Chairman Richard Marlowe (L) thanks the Revd Adam Gaunt

Had I perhaps mistakenly turned up to a barmitzvah instead of a Christian service?Other nations worship idols...

It was the first hymn. I had, perhaps foolishly, notlooked quite carefully enough at my order of servicebeforehand, so was surprised to hear that we wereprocessing in to what sounded like a parody of aklezmer song. Perhaps I should have donned ayarmulke and cut a jig as we filed in. Lachaim!

The church was clearly trying to appeal to a mixedage group. But, tellingly, there was not a singleteenager there. Might the aesthetics have hadanything to do with it? It’s not that modern worshipmusic is a bad thing per se. I have seen teenagersreally enjoying high-quality, band-led worship musicat the Walsingham Youth Pilgrimage. But the music atthe service was not like that: it was the insipid, fakefolk stuff from three decades ago that is still routinelyoffered in churches throughout the land andaccompanied, entirely inappropriately for its register,on the organ.

Lyrically, so many of these songs are devoid ofdoctrine and replete instead with the word ‘I’: here Iam, Lord, look at me, Lord. A friend of mine used toplay a little game where he would replace the word‘baby’ from any pop song with the name of Jesus andplay along on his guitar. That’s what some of thesesongs were really like.

Take that first hymn. I think it was meant to be ajolly little children’s song, and a few people weregetting into the spirit and clapping along. But noneof the people doing the actions were actuallychildren: they were octogenarians in cardies. Goodon them for giving it a go, but really, I am notconvinced it was aimed at them.

Now, I really enjoy klezmer music over a coldPilsner in Krakow, but I don’t really want a clumsyChristian appropriation of Jewish folk music as I tryto approach the altar at the beginning of divineservice, especially when the lyrics bang on abouthow all other nations are idolaters.

The church leaders who think this kind of musicis appealing to the young are seriously missing thepoint. Clapping along to folk pastiche from the mid1980s and 1990s is what the young think of as OAPreligion. It’s dated. It is certainly not timeless in theway that ancient Christian chant can be. It teachesnothing of the faith except a vague fondness for

Jesus. And it’s not even young people’s music: it’swhat old people think young people might like(generally without asking them). This, need I tell anyparent of teenagers, is unlikely to be a fruitfulapproach. It’s as though the Church were someembarrassing dad ‘throwing shapes’ at the schooldisco.

So, what does this have to do with the PrayerBook? Well, I think there is an analogy to be drawnhere between the Church’s use of music and herliturgy. For all their emphasis on accessibility, it is nolonger clear who these stale pop-hymns are reallymeant to be for. The same can be said for much ofCommon Worship. This, too, is what middle-aged,middle-of-the-road clergy have decided is good foryoung people: easier to understand, more accessible.And yet, for all its accessibility, since its introduction,church attendance has dramatically declined. Iwonder whether musical and liturgical dumbing-down is a symptom of growing indifference to thefaith, or a cause.

Conversely, there are reports of growth amongyoung people in congregations where the PrayerBook and the more traditional rites are celebrated.This is not so much a matter of churchmanship: thePrayer Book is as much the liturgy of the traditionalevangelical as the traditional Catholic. But certainlythe older and more enduring forms seem to havemore of an appeal to the young than the hymnodyand liturgy from three decades ago.

Why might this be? I think the answer can befound in three things, which the world nowstruggles to offer but which young people aredesperately seeking: identity, authenticity andexperience.

Where identity was once found in religion,nation, family and social class, these have beeneroded: hence the rise in ‘subcultures’, where theyoung can choose their own identikit personality,replete with matching accessories and social networkecho-rooms. Authenticity and integrity are victims ofthe post-truth age, in which my truth is just as goodas anyone’s, because nobody is ultimately to betrusted. And the young seek positive experiences,genuine opportunities for growth rather than simplyattending anything as a matter of course or mereduty.

The tradition of the Prayer Book offers all three of

What the young don’t wantThomas Plant

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these in abundance.Identity, not as a Jeremy Hunt ‘believe what you

want and don’t really pray’ sort of Anglican, or partof a free-for-all franchise of completely differentchurches hiding under the umbrella of the Church ofEngland, but clear, definitive theology expressed inblack and white in one volume.

Authenticity in its clarity of exposition and its refusalto compromise, expurgate or edit the scripturalsources from which it is drawn, unlike the pic’n’mixmelange curated in the secrecy of some parish officeby whomever is in charge of drafting a CommonWorship service.

Experience of a systematic spirituality, practically arule of life, which when followed decently andsoberly, in beauty of holiness, yields an unequalleddepth, richness and fulness of spiritual growth.

Add to this the sound pedagogical reasons to backthe one-year BCP Eucharistic lectionary over theRevised Common Lectionary’s three-year spread, andthe Church has in its hands a great gift to give theyoung.

Teenagers are canny. They will not be cajoled intosuspicious cultural appropriations and they will notaccept carefully curated material from obfuscatingclergy. They will not be patronised. Give teenagers aPrayer Book and there’s a chance that they might readit—heaven forfend, maybe even pray from it!—especially if they know that you do the same. At any

rate, better odds than getting them to clap along to a1980s action song.

The Revd Dr Thomas Plant is author of The Catholic Jesus andDaily Prayer Planner, both available from Amazon. He hasbeen a PBS member for over a decade. He moonlights as an Aikidoinstructor and writer of horror sci-fi fiction. Web:www.greatersilence.com Twitter: @thosplant

The Revd Dr Peter Toon was a theologian,originally from England, who for many yearslived in the United States and was President of

the Prayer Book Society of the USA. His widow, DrVita Toon, inaugurated an annual lecture in hismemory, which is held under the auspices of thePrayer Book Society. The lecture aims to promote,defend and expound the Reformed Anglican Way asexpressed in the Formularies of the Church ofEngland—the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles and the Ordinal.

This year’s lecture took place on Wednesday,22nd May at Pusey House, Oxford. The speaker wasthe Revd Vaughan Roberts, Rector of St Ebbe’s inOxford, who gave a thoughtful and well-attendedaddress on the subject ‘Predestination to life: Assisted

suicide, human dignity,and the faith enshrined inthe Book of CommonPrayer’. The lectureconsidered both pragmaticand theological aspects ofthe topic, and VaughanRoberts’ arguments are covered in his short bookAssisted Suicide (ISBN 9781784981938, The GoodBook Company, 2017).

The lecture was followed by Evensong, with asermon by the Revd Tony Noble, Rector Emeritus ofAll Saints’, San Diego, USA (in the EpiscopalChurch).

Details of the 2020 lecture will be published indue course.

The Peter Toon MemorialLecture

The Revd VaughanRoberts

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Ifirst met Peter Toon about twelve years ago, whenI was Rector of All Saints, San Diego. I knew ofhim as an evangelical scholar, writer and

defender of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.It was a Saturday night and my phone rang. The

voice said, ‘Is that Father Noble?’ I replied, ‘Yes.’ ‘Iunderstand that you use Rite 1 with Catholicadditions,’ the voice continued. ‘How close to thePrayer Book are your services?’ I said that the 8a.m.Mass was mostly from the Prayer Book.

Next morning Peter and his wife, Vita, attendedthe 8a.m. Mass. Peter introduced himself and I feltquite honoured that such a notable evangelical hadattended my church. He and Vita continued to attendfaithfully every Sunday. Thus began a pastoralrelationship that became a friendship.

Peter described himself as an evangelical Catholicand his great theme was that the Anglican Churchwas ‘reformed Catholic’. He believed that the 1662Prayer Book was the foundation document for thisunderstanding. I enjoyed our theological discussionsand the opportunities to listen to him.

Peter came to San Diego for health reasons andto be near his family. In due course, his healthdeclined. I visited him with Holy Communion inhospital and at home. Then came the day. I rememberit well—it was a Saturday and St Mark’s day. I had justfinished saying our usual Saturday Mass and thephone rang. It was Vita, saying the time was near forPeter to go to his Lord.

I collected the Blessed Sacrament and holy oiland drove to their home. Upon arrival, Peter askedfor the Last Rites ‘in your tradition’. I was humbledto be asked by this great evangelical scholar toadminister the Last Rites. It was a grace-filledexperience for me.

I spent the rest of the morning with Peter,listening to his favourite hymns on an old cassetteplayer, occasionally praying or reading the Bible. Inthe afternoon, I went home to prepare for Sunday. Atabout 8p.m. the phone rang. It was Vita, telling methat Peter had passed. I went over and Vita hadlovingly dressed Peter in his robes. His instructionswere that I should commend him using the 1662Burial Office, which was typed out in Peter’s no-nonsense way.

It was a privilege to have ministered to Peter andhis family. There is no rite for Holy Unction in the

1662 BCP. However, an examination of the BCPreveals something akin to the Last Rites. I refer to theVisitation of the Sick and the Communion of theSick, which follows immediately afterwards.

We need to remember that in the sixteenth andseventeenth centuries, death was common. Tosummon the priest was probably seen as a sign thatdeath was imminent. Even in my youth I rememberthe priest taking Holy Communion to a parishionerand her neighbours assuming she was near death.

Cranmer’s order for the Visitation of the Sick is afascinating rite. It uses traditional prayers from thecustomary of the time. There are, of course,references to God’s visitation and chastisement, aswell as the necessity for repentance. After this comesan affirmation of the faith in the form of theApostles’ Creed.

Then follows confession. Not just the GeneralConfession, but what Cranmer called ‘a specialconfession’. This uses the traditional form ofabsolution that is used in the sacrament ofreconciliation. The rite concludes with the familiarblessing, ‘The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lordmake his face to shine upon you and give you hispeace.’

The Communion of the Sick follows. It assumesthat the Eucharist will be celebrated at the bedside,albeit somewhat shortened. It begins with theCollect, Epistle and Gospel and then moves to theconfession, with the same instruction as for a specialconfession.

At the heart of this Communion service is one ofCranmer’s magnificent prayers—the Prayer ofHumble Access. We know it as a preparation forreceiving Holy Communion, but the 1662 BCP has itbefore the Prayer of Consecration, as a seal on thePreface and Sanctus.

The prayer is a remarkable combination ofCatholic and reformed teaching. It is an image ofPeter Toon’s understanding that, as Anglicans, we arereformed Catholic Christians in a church which hedescribed as ‘reformed Catholic in substance andhistorical expression’.

We do not presume to come to this thy Table, Omerciful Lord, trusting in our ownrighteousness, but in thy manifold and greatmercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather

Peter Toon and the Order for theVisitation of the Sick

Tony Noble

up the crumbs under thy Table. But thou art thesame Lord, whose property is always to havemercy: Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so toeat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and todrink his blood, that our sinful bodies may bemade clean by his body, and our souls washedthrough his most precious blood, and that wemay evermore dwell in him, and he in us.Amen.

‘We do not presume...’ The prayer begins withour unworthiness and the mercy of God. Ourunworthiness is a consistent theme of Cranmer andthe reformers. Then we pray that we are not worthyso much as to gather up the crumbs. This is amarvellous reference to Matthew 15:21–28, thestory of the Canaanite who begged Jesus to heal herdaughter. The disciples wanted Jesus to send heraway. He responds to her with an image of thechildren’s bread being thrown to the dogs.

The woman’s reply is beautiful: ‘Yes, Lord, buteven the dogs eat the crumbs from the Master’s table.’So we say that we are not worthy to gather up thecrumbs from the Master’s Table. The Master’s Table!The Eucharistic image is profound and obvious.

Then comes a change of direction: ‘But thou artthe same Lord’.

What a pivotal word ‘but’ is. We are not worthybut it doesn’t matter.

No doubt Cranmer had in mind all those timesthat St Paul uses ‘but’ to emphasise a truth, changedirection or point to God’s unending love, despiteour sinful nature. In Ephesians 2, Paul contrasts theold ways of sin with new life in Christ: ‘But God whois rich in mercy, out of the great love with which heloved us’; ‘But now in Christ Jesus you who oncewere far off have been brought near in the blood ofChrist’.

In Galatians 4, Paul gives images of adoptionversus sonship and slave versus free: ‘But when thetime had fully come, God sent forth his Son’ and ‘butthe Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother’.

In Galatians 6:14, we have Paul’s great saying:‘But far be it for me to glory, except in the cross ofour Lord Jesus Christ’. And in 1 Corinthians, thereare many well-known verses where Paul uses theword ‘but’: ‘But we preach Christ crucified’; ‘But Godchose what is foolish’; ‘But by the grace of God I amwhat I am’; ‘But in fact Christ has been raised fromthe dead’. I could go on.

So, Cranmer uses the word ‘but’ to turn ourunworthiness on its head: ‘But thou art the sameLord, whose property is always to have mercy…’

Now a surprising turn: ‘Grant us… so to eat the

flesh… and to drink his blood’. This is carnallanguage and reminds us of when Jesus said to hisdisciples: ‘Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Manand drink his blood, you have no life in you’. Thegospel records them saying, ‘This is intolerablelanguage’.

Despite everything pointing to Cranmer’s denialof transubstantiation and the real presence of Christin the Eucharist, here we have an irrefutabledeclaration that what we receive is the very body andblood of Christ. And for a specific purpose: that ourbodies may be made clean and our souls washed.

Then comes the wonderful climax: ‘that we mayevermore dwell in him, and he in us’.

Imagine hearing those words as you are about toreceive Holy Communion on your deathbed! As theconclusion to the prayer, they are the ultimate inboth Catholic and reformed Eucharistic theology.

The poetry of the Prayer of Humble Access andits theology are mirrored in a well-known hymn bythe nineteenth-century non-conformist writer andsocial justice warrior, Josiah Condor. It is anappropriate conclusion.

Bread of heaven, on thee we feed,For Thy flesh is meat indeed:Ever may our souls be fedWith this true and living bread;Day by day with strength suppliedThrough the life of Him who died.

Vine of heaven, Thy blood suppliesThis blest cup of sacrifice:’Tis Thy wounds our healing give;To Thy cross we look and live:Thou our life, oh let us beRooted, grafted, built on thee!Amen.

This article is based on a sermon delivered by Father Tony Noble,Rector Emeritus of All Saints, San Diego, at Evensong following thePeter Toon Memorial Lecture at Pusey House, Oxford in May thisyear.

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Professor David MartinRoger Homan

Professor David Martin died on 8th March2019, in his ninetieth year. Within academiclife, he was a person of considerable stature

and his scholarly legacy is formidable.His spiritual journey led from the sectarian

forms of religious organisation to the mainstream ofthe Church of England. His father, a taxi driver inLondon, was at home in the revivalist tradition andon a soap box in Hyde Park.

David Martin served as a Methodist localpreacher before being priested in 1984 and joiningthe clerical team at Guildford Cathedral. If ever hehad, in his earlier days, enjoyed being heckled or hadthe heart to prevail, his later manner was greatlytempered and he would not ride on the traditionalauthority of the preacher. He came before hisaudiences with humility and sometimes with theengaging effect of embarrassment, as he shuffledthrough freshly handwritten notes that only he andhis secretary could decipher.

His academic career followed a parallel course.He was a grammar school boy at East Sheen, trainedas a primary school teacher, took an external degreethrough Wolsey Hall and, with first class honours,embarked on university teaching, becomingProfessor of Sociology at the London School ofEconomics. In 2007, he was elected Fellow of theBritish Academy.

It was as a sociologist of religion that DavidMartin secured a reputation at world level. For manyundergraduates in the 1960s, the discipline wasintroduced by his accessible A Sociology of English Religion(SCM 1967), which mapped the territory andprompted explorations that were undertaken atdoctoral level by many students, whom hesubsequently supervised or examined and mentored.This little but influential work was followed in timeby attention to the wider world in his magisterial A General Theory of Secularization (1987). He went on tostudy the burgeoning of Pentecostalism in differentnational formations and, within the Church ofEngland, he made an enduring intellectual impactthrough his visionary writings and initiatives. Hewas a nuclear member of the Society in its formativeyears, when some of its more impatient companyenjoyed the soubriquet ‘the Prayer Book militanttendency’.

In the late 1970s, as the Alternative Service Bookloomed, with the instinct of Canute, he enlisted agreat number of names from the arts, from academic

life and politics, as signatories of three petitions.These were published together with a series of shortarticles in a guest-edited issue of PN Review entitled‘Crisis for Cranmer and King James’.

The petitions were remarkable not merely for thenumber and calibre of their signatories but because aforthright plea had been so cogently worded as tofind few refusers. David Martin drew into the PrayerBook cause a significant cross-section of the culturalestablishment of whom many remain, though somehave fallen asleep. Over the last 40 years, they havesupported, enriched and dignified the campaign as ithas evolved. There were many heads of Oxbridgecolleges and several high court judges. Poetry andliterature were represented by, among others, JohnBetjeman, Alan Bennett, Ted Hughes, WilliamGolding, Richard Hoggart, Philip Larkin and BerylBainbridge; theatre by John Gielgud, Joyce Grenfell,Peggy Ashcroft and Glenda Jackson. William Walton,Adrian Boult, Herbert Howells and Andrew LloydWebber were among those who spoke for music.Parliamentarians included Patrick Cormack, FrankField, William Waldegrave, John Profumo and AlecDouglas-Home. Editorial space forbids further name-dropping here, let alone the titles and extensivedecorations of those who lent their weight to thecampaign. They could not be dismissed or ignored.When the revisers were running amok, DavidMartin’s petitions restrained them and rehabilitatedtradition.

Faith and sociology have had a variablerelationship within the English Church. Thereformers would have had us believe that preferencefor traditional forms was attributable to nostalgia andsentimentality. They acknowledged but dismissed thebeauty of language and supposed a generationalfactor, as though the Prayer Book would work its wayout of use as its supporters died out. No one was ableto expose the falsity of these claims better than DavidMartin. As an accomplished musician and aesthete,his appreciation of Cranmer’s numinous power washardly a mere taste for quaintness.

Empirical methods could be used to test thedemographic assurances. So, in 1979, David Martincommissioned two or three questions in the Gallupomnibus poll in the confidence that scientificmeasures would challenge the claims being made forimminent revisions. The evidence was that liturgicalchanges estranged the faithful to the extent thatinfrequent and non-attenders had the more

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traditional preferences. It therefore came as nosurprise when church attendance fell steeply in theaftermath of the Alternative Service Book 1980.

At other times, sociological observation providesa distance from change and decay that makes thembearable and David Martin’s ready humour couldturn a potential offence into a sociologicalphenomenon and an after-dinner story. For example,he once spotted a Christmas nativity scene withanimals, shepherds and all: and hanging on a crosson the wall behind was Santa Claus in his familiargarb. Admittedly, the setting was not his belovedGuildford Cathedral.

The loss of David Martin will be deeply felt byhis devoted wife Bernice, by his family who werewith him at the end, by contemporary scholars athome and throughout the world and by scores of hisformer students, among whom the writer of thisinadequate piece proudly counts himself. ‘He was myfriend, faithful and just to me.’

Roger Homan is a Vice-President of the Prayer Book Society.

Meg Pointer

Ann Margaret Dalzell was born at Petts Wood,Kent on the 14th June 1935 and was baptizedat St Francis, Petts Wood on 23rd July. She was

the second of four siblings and the familysubsequently settled in the village of Mayfield. Shewas confirmed at St Dunstan’s Church, Mayfield inNovember 1951.

Meg, as she was known, attended the RoyalTunbridge Wells County Grammar School beforeentering St Thomas’s Hospital’s Nightingale TrainingSchool for Nurses in Godalming, completing hertraining in 1958. She moved to Scotland to studymidwifery and passed her exams in Edinburgh in1960.

Meg worked as a nurse until marrying RichardWilliam Pointer in 1968 and settling in Harrow inthe parish of St George’s, Headstone. After beingwidowed in 1985 Meg returned to nursing at nearbyNorthwick Park Hospital where, after retirement, shecontinued her involvement as a member of thehospital’s Friends.

A long-time member of the Prayer Book Society,Meg became the Society’s Honorary Secretary in2002; and in 2003, following incorporation (whenthe Prayer Book Society became a limited company),she became the first Company Secretary, holding thepost until 2005.

Meg had a particularcommitment to theCranmer Awards, havingmissed only oneNational Final since theinception of thecompetition in 1989.For many years sheassisted the late MrsMargot Thompson in running the Awards, and thentook over as National Administrator herself, steppingdown in 2006. She continued, however, to beactively involved with the Awards, including helpingto organise the London & Southwark Branch heats,assisting with the running of the National Final, andsupporting subsequent National Administrators inher customary calm, helpful and efficient manner.She was present, as usual, at the 30th anniversaryFinals at Lambeth Palace in February, clerking in theJunior Finalists as she had done for some years.

Meg was a long-standing member of thecongregation of St George’s Headstone, Harrow (aCorporate Member church of the Prayer BookSociety), serving as PCC Secretary before becomingChurchwarden in 1994. A pillar of strength at StGeorge’s, she died in post quite unexpectedly on themorning of 6th September 2019.

Meg Pointer at theCranmer Awards in 2010

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The Prayer Book at workSidonie

My name is Sidonie and you’d think thatwould be enough to identify me, but I usetwo surnames: Winter professionally, and I

am Mrs Stevens too. I am a professional singer (hencethe two names as I am a member of Equity) and Ialso teach singing and piano at home, and recentlystarted to learn to play the pedal harp.

To answer the question that most people ask me,‘Where do you sing?’ (a slightly odd question Ialways think), I am a member of the Extra Chorus atthe Royal Opera House; I sing with the MonteverdiChoir, Opera Rara and as a session singer; I do solosin oratorios and recitals and I am a professionalchurch musician, singing for Sunday services,funerals and weddings, occasionally inflicting myvery basic organ playing on local congregationswhen they’re desperate for someone to play!

I am also a member of the Prayer Book Society.Maybe it’s because I’m a singer and musician that Ienjoy the beauty and rhythm of the Prayer Booklanguage, feeling a true sense of peace andsatisfaction after taking part in a BCP service, evenmore so if it is sung.

I have even taken my love of the Prayer Book onstage with me. I am usually involved in theperformances of Tosca at the ROH, most recentlywith Sir Bryn Terfel (that’s how it’s spelt, PBSmagazine editor!) having been in this productionsince it was new. I was issued with a Book ofCommon Prayer as a ‘prop’ the first time werehearsed in costume. Those of you who know theplot of Tosca will know that Act 1 culminates with arendition of part of the Te Deum, in Latin of course,we are in Italy, and our set represents the inside ofthe church of Sant’Andrea della Valle. Tosca andScarpia skirt round one another in the foregroundand we prepare for a service of thanksgiving forvictory behind this action, with an altar, priest,choirboys, servers, acolytes, thurifers, nuns andclouds of incense.

I am there in the congregation in my wonderfulcostume, made for me from silk fabric produced forthe ROH based on an original Georgian design,holding my Book of Common Prayer. It’s a bitbizarre, I suppose—it should be a Missal really but,whilst waiting to go on for this scene, I’ve beenworking my way through the Psalms and, when onstage, I have the book open at the correct page of theMorning Prayer service, just in case anyone can see! Ikeep ‘my’ Prayer Book in my props bag with my

gloves, stockings and the button hook for my period-style button shoes (yes, real button shoes; attentionto detail are the wardrobe department’s watch-words), whereas most of the other Prayer Bookcarriers put theirs back on the props table after thescene. I like to know I’ll get the same copy back nexttime the production takes to the stage!

I’ve just booked for the PBS conference for thesecond year running, I enjoyed it so much last year.That got me thinking: I wonder if others get to use aBCP in other walks of life, other than at services inchurch or for private prayer?

It would also be interesting to know of otherproductions, dramatic, operatic or film, that the BCPappears in.

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At the Annual General Meeting on 16th August,Jon Riding was elected as the newest memberof the Board of Trustees of the Prayer Book

Society.Jon is a member of the Salisbury Branch of the

Society where he has, in recent years, organised theCranmer Award heats for Salisbury Diocese. He livesin Sherborne, Dorset and worships at SherborneAbbey. For much of the last thirty years he has servedas a translation consultant with the Bible Societies,specialising in computational linguistics. He is avisiting researcher at Oxford Brookes University(Computing and Mathematical Sciences) and anAssistant Lecturer at Sarum College (BiblicalLanguages and NT Theology). In times past he wasChairman of Trustees for Refurbiz (now KennetFurniture Refurbiz) in Wiltshire. His acquaintancewith the Book of Common Prayer began as a youngchorister, was strengthened by time as a lay clerk atChester Cathedral and over many years thereafter as

an organist and choirmaster in Devon and Wiltshire.He is the co-editor of the Wessex Psalter.

Over thirty years of travelling the world workingwith Bible translation teams, most often in sub-Saharan Africa, has given him the broadestperspective on the worship and life of the widerChurch and has served to bring into sharp focus thebeauty of the Book of Common Prayer, thecontinuity it represents and its strength as a unifyingforce in the (Anglican) Communion. At a time whengrowing numbers of younger people in the UK arelearning to appreciate the Prayer Book, particularly inthe context of Choral Evensong in colleges andcathedrals, he is passionate about engaging with thisnew generation of worshippers and exploring howthe Society might encourage them in their encounterwith the spirituality of the Book of Common Prayer.

Jon replaces the Revd David Harris (who hasstepped down due to pressure of parishresponsibilities).

Welcome to our new Trustee

As Gyles Brandreth, the writer, broadcaster andactor, tours the UK with Break a Leg—his newshow celebrating all things theatrical—he is

keeping an eye open for churches that use the 1662Book of Common Prayer (BCP) at 8a.m. HolyCommunion on Sundays. ‘That’s the service I like toattend at my home church in London—St Mary’s,Barnes—so I hope I will be able to do the same asour itinerary criss-crosses the country in the comingweeks,’ he said.

Gyles is the latest in a growing number ofcelebrities who have declared their enthusiasm forthe BCP. He told the Prayer Book Society, whichencourages rediscovery and use of the majesty andspiritual depth of the BCP at the heart of the Churchof England’s worship: ‘Language is power and theway we use language defines us. The power andbeauty of the language of the Book of CommonPrayer is extraordinary—and stands the test of time.’He added: ‘It is because of the BCP that I find myselfat church at 8a.m. on a Sunday morning: it is thepower of the language that draws me there and liftsme once I arrive.’

Gyles also describes the BCP as ‘a perfect bedsidebook’. ‘This is because of the language and because

of the sense of heritage that is inherent in the PrayerBook,’ he explained. ‘As the BCP reminds us in theCollect for the second Sunday of Advent: “Read,mark, learn, and inwardly digest”.’

Gyles Brandreth reveals why the language of theBCP draws him to church on Sundays

AGM Report 2019Ordinands initiativesIn 2018, 1022 new ordinands and readers enteringtraining were supplied with a copy of the BCP and ofUsing the Book of Common Prayer: A Simple Guide by PaulThomas, as opposed to 920 the previous year.

Bursaries to Annual Conference publicised to allTheological Colleges and courses and DiocesanDirectors of Ordinands.

Theological Colleges visited were St Mellitus(three visits), Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, Westcott House,Ridley Hall, Ripon College Cuddesdon.

Visits planned to Trinity College Bristol, StAugustine’s College Canterbury, All Saints Chester,Oak Hill, Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, SarumCollege.

Jane Williams at St Mellitus (162 new trainees in2018, 121 in 2017) has agreed to contact PBSCorporate Member churches for placement purposesfor their students.

‘OLD WINE’ events programme: Christchurch,Oxford 9th May 2016, St Botolph, Cambridge 10thJune 2019, St Mellitus, London 27th April/11th May2020, Chapel of St Anselm Hall, ManchesterUniversity 2021.

Clergy initiativesThe National Christian Resources Exhibition inOctober 2018 featured a major PBS presence.

Clerical vacancies diocesan websites and C of EPathways website and Church press (50–70 permonth) (Peter Bolton, Bradley Smith volunteerhelpers). Tip-offs by Branches and members averageone per week.

Offer free membership training years 1–7.Offer all clergy Annual Conference bursaries

publicised to all diocesan CME directors.

Licensed readers initiatives229 new trainee readers starting training at TEIsidentified for the first time.

Advertising in quarterly Reader magazine hascommenced in 2019.

Corporate Churches Membership (total 102) ofwhich 16 new Corporate Members joined during thelast 12 months:St Andrew, Greensted-juxta-Ongar Cheltenham;St Briochus, Lezant Truro; St Lawrence, Tubney Oxford;

St Margaret of Antioch, Felthorpe Norwich; St Mary,Wycliffe Durham; St Mary, Car Colston Southwell &Nottingham; St Michael, Elmley Lovett Worcester; StSymphorian, Veryan Truro; St Thomas of Canterbury,Cothelstone Bath & Wells; St Nicholas, CabourneLincoln; Sarum Theological College Salisbury; St Alban,Cayman Islands West Indies; St Augustine TheologicalCollege Canterbury; Chapel of St Anselm Hall,Manchester University Manchester; St Olav TrustChristian Bookshop Chichester; St George, HanoverSquare London.

Corporate Member churches visits: 10th June StBotolph, Cambridge; 19th June Temple Church,London; 30th June St James the Less, Litchfield; 4thAugust St Leonard & St James, Rousham; 20thOctober Chapel Royal, Windsor Great Park.

Schools and universitiesThe Society had a major presence at the biennialSchool Chaplains’ Conference held at HopeUniversity, Liverpool, 12th–14th June.

The Chapel of St Anselm Hall, Manchester hasbeen recruited as a Corporate Member. The MaryHarris Chapel of The Holy Trinity, Exeter University isintending to become one.

The PBS had a stand at Freshers’ Week at OxfordUniversity and will do so again this year.

BCPs for prisonersIn January, I recruited as a PBS member the RevdJonathan Aitken, who is a firm supporter and user ofthe Book of Common Prayer and a chaplain at H. M.Prison Pentonville. I am working closely with him toput the Society’s outreach to prisoners on a moreproactive basis. Since 2010, we have responded torequests from eighteen prison chaplains for a total of271 copies, the most recent, for 40 copies, requestedby the chaplain at H. M. Prison Wakefield. It isanticipated that the new initiative will be launched inthe spring of 2020.

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Co-ordinator’s column John Service

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There was nothing musty about the Old Wineserved up in the shape of the Prayer Book inCambridge recently.

Designed primarily to introduce aspects of thePrayer Book to ordinands, it soon became apparentthat the event appealed very much also to therecently ordained and many lay people, all faced withthe challenges of using the Prayer Book publicly, forwhich they had not been greatly prepared.

A distinguished panel of speakers, ably chairedby Bishop Rowan Williams, set out to explain how tospeak the Prayer Book, how to sing it and how to useit in parish life, from a number of perspectives.

Drawing on St Luke 5:39—No man also having drunkold wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better—and the structure of a similar event in Oxford a fewyears ago, a hundred people from near and far wereattracted to St Botolph’s Cambridge on 10th June2019 for an evening of Choral Evensong, supper,panel presentations and discussion, rounded off byCompline.

People travelled from London, Lincoln,Canterbury, Bath and Bristol to be present, as well asmore locally in the case of fifteen ordinands fromCambridge colleges and the Eastern Region Ministry

Course for training ordinands.The Revd Dr Cally Hammond, Dean of Gonville

and Caius College, spoke of the need to inhabit therhythm of the texts, with their ebbs and flows, inorder to get the pronunciation right; and the value ofrepetition for perfection—and for inward absorptiontoo.

Andrew Morris, musician, examiner and teacher,spoke similarly on the need to have a sense of rhythmand maintain a steady pulse when singing the Officesand Holy Communion. These attributes were farmore important than pitch and tone and any wrongnotes would be soon corrected by the organist.

The Revd Dr Robert Mackley, Vicar of Little StMary’s, Cambridge, the Revd Dr Mark Smith, Dean ofClare College and the Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie,Curate of Our Lady and St Nicholas, Liverpool, allthen gave their perspectives on using the Prayer Bookin parish life. There was a strong sense in all thepresentations that the Prayer Book captures soresonantly the deep texture of life and connects itwell to our salvation.

Again, the speakers emphasised the value ofrepetition in building up the worshipping life of thecongregation and deepening the faith of the

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Celebrating with Old Wine inCambridge Revd Stephen Anderson

Cally Hammond addresses the gathering

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individual worshipper. The closing message was‘forget this book at your peril’.

Beforehand, Bishop Rowan Williams officiatedEvensong and preached an uplifting sermon on theEve of St Barnabas, seeing in him many of theattributes of being an Anglican—moderate,balanced, solid and dependable—unlike theheadstrong St Paul, with whom he travelled—andseeing those same characteristics embodied in thePrayer Book as the basis for Anglican piety.

Thanks to substantial sponsorship by the PrayerBook Society and the generous provision of time andtalents in cooking, carrying and serving a splendidsupper by the St Botolph’s home team, all were ableto leave having been fed spiritually by the content ofthe evening and fortified by a really good meal.

As one attendee wrote afterwards: ‘So much togo home and think, pray and even practise singingabout while maintaining rhythm and repetition.’While another summed it up beautifully: ‘Evensong,wonderful food and fellowship, erudite andentertaining speakers and Compline. What could bebetter?’

The Revd Stephen Anderson is Priest in Charge of St BotolphCambridge and Chairman of Ely Diocese Branch of the PrayerBook Society. Bishop Rowan’s sermon will be published in Faith& Worship, together with the presentations of several of thespeakers.

Father Rob and Bishop Rowan

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CorrespondenceSir,The best help I can offer to Neil Inkley in his searchfor the logic behind Petition Fourteen of the PrayerBook Litany is contained in some words written byEdward Jacob Boyce, probably at the end of thenineteenth century, although the title page of hisbook carries no date. I offer them here in theirentirety, albeit I have made some minor punctuationchanges to improve the textual flow. The book, seereference below, has no fewer than thirty words in itstitle!

We sinners do beseech thee to hear us, O LordGod; and that it may please Thee to rule andgovern Thy holy Church universal in the rightway; We beseech Thee to hear us, Good Lord.

We pray that Christ, the Founder and King(Dan. vii. 13; S. Luke xxii. 29) of a kingdomwhich shall have no end (Nicene Creed; Dan. ii.44; vii. 13, 14, 27; S. Luke i. 32, 33; Heb. xii.28), the Founder and Head (Eph. v. 23) of theChurch which He purchased with His ownblood (Acts xx. 28), who promised to be with itto the end of the world, and that the gates of Hellshould never prevail against it (S. Matt, xxviii. 20;xvi. 18; S. John xvi. 13); that He would rule HisChurch by His authority as a King, and govern itby His wisdom as a Pilot, always preserving itfrom false apostles, and ordering and guiding itby faithful and true pastors (Collect S. Matthias).

That He would so guide and govern the mindsof its bishops and pastors, that they mayfaithfully (without partiality) and wisely (withgreat discretion) make choice of fit persons toserve in its sacred ministry (First Collect EmberWeek).

That the whole body of the Church, and allwho profess and call themselves members of itmay be so guided, governed, and sanctified byGod’s good Spirit, that everyone in His vocationand ministry may truly and godly serve Him, beinspired continually with the Spirit of truth (andthus be preserved from heresy), unity (and thuskept from schism) and concord (and thus be freefrom hatred and emulation).

That He would be pleased to direct andprosper all the consultations of the High Court ofParliament to the good of His Church; wouldkeep His household in continual godliness andcast His bright beams of light upon it that it maywalk in the light of His truth, and at length attain

to the light of everlasting life.See the Collects for the following days: S. Matthias; S. John

the Evangelist; Good Friday; 32nd Sunday after Trinity;Prayer for the Church Militant; All Conditions of Men;Collects for the Ember weeks.

Edward Jacob Boyce, The Litany from the Book of CommonPrayer of the use of the Church of England with an introduction,explanation of words and phrases, together with illustrative anddevotional paraphrases (London, SPCK, no date), 33f.

Yours faithfully,Dr David Fuller

Sir,With reference to Neil Inkley’s article in the Trinityissue of our magazine: how can God possibly bewrong! I think there may be a little slip in thetranslation here. I know neither Greek, nor thehigher flights of Latin, but, if instead of ‘in the rightway’, this phrase were to be rendered ‘into the rightway’, this prayer makes perfectly good sense. Afterall, only God knows what the Right Way is.

Sincerely,Margaret Drege

Sir,I read with interest Neil Inkley’s observations on thefourteenth petition of the Litany and share hisconcerns regarding the dangers of human beingsmaking judgements on what is right and wrong! Inthis case I wonder if perhaps the answer to the puzzlelies in Cranmer’s encyclopaedic knowledge ofPatristics. I read this petition as a reference to the‘Two Ways’. Two Ways teaching is stronglyrepresented in early Christian writings and indeedcontemporary Jewish writings. It holds the idea thatthere is a way of good and a way of evil oftenexpressed metaphorically in terms such as light anddark. It has a lot in common with the writings of StJohn and flirts, perhaps dangerously, with thedualism of the early gnostics and, later, of theManicheans. All of which makes it a difficult thing tomake judgements about so perhaps it is sensible topetition God for His help in walking the ‘right way’.I’m looking forward to reading other suggestions…Alastair Stewart’s little book On the Two Ways in StVladimir’s Seminary Press’s Popular Patristics Series isan excellent resource for anyone who wishes toexplore Two Ways teaching further.

Jon Riding

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Further apologies required for your erratum. Thename is neither Turvel nor Tyrfel but Terfel!

Godfrey Dann

Dear Sirs,Although I do not belong to St Matthew’s Church(my own home is the exclusively Prayer Book churchBeauchief Abbey), I do attend St Matthew’s onoccasion and find that they now offer a saidEvensong every Sunday evening at 5p.m. Even with asaid Evensong this must be an improvement in theuse of the Prayer Book in Sheffield when previouslyas far as I know they did not use the Prayer Book atall.

I will certainly attend now and then andhopefully others in Sheffield who like an Evensongwill do the same.

Yours faithfully,Bryan Thornhill

Sir,Do you think you might find room for an appeal fora copy of the PBS ‘Communion Service forcongregations without an ordained minister’? Iknow this exists as it was pointed out in one of themagazines some considerable time ago, but the PBSoffice has been unable to help me. At the presenttime our house church is fortunate enough to have aretired vicar but illness and bad weather can taketheir toll and we are considering the DIY route incase of emergencies.

Mrs H. V. Coleman

Dear Sir,On holiday last week in France in our motorhome, Ihad the opportunity, as I always do, to catch up witha stack of magazines received from several bodies,including yours of Michaelmas 2018. I wasespecially moved by the article on ‘The Prayer Bookin Walmington-on-Sea’.

In 1966 I was appointed (at quite a young age)the Organist and Choirmaster of a suburban ParishChurch in Roundhay, Leeds. I remember at someearly stage saying to the Choirmen that I could notcome for a beer after Choir Practice (as a youngmarried man with three young children I was prettybroke anyway) as I wanted to get home to watch thisso funny new programme called Dad’s Army. ‘It’s anabsolute hoot,’ I said, ‘a real send up.’ One of theChoirmen said to me, ‘No send up! It’s actually quitetrue to what it was. I was in the Home Guard!’

One episode featured a Harvest Festival service.The hymn numbers were displayed on the board.They were the Harvest Hymns in the 480s, 481, 482,

483, 486 etc. The men sang lustily from theirmaroon hymn books—obviously Ancient and ModernRevised. It occurred to me (and I have seen the episodemany times) sometime along the years that theRevised Edition of A&M was not issued until 1951 orso. Therefore in the wartime days they would havehad only the Standard (dark blue) Edition. TheHarvest Hymns in that Standard Edition appeared inthe 380s, not the 480s! They would have been 381,382, 383 and 386 etc. This is one of the quite fewtimes that I have seen the BBC in those better daysactually get it a bit wrong! I don’t think many peoplewould have clicked into that, and although I havetold others of the gaffe, I have never heard anybodyelse mention it. Your article’s author, the rector ofparishes including my namesake(!), did not, amonghis detailed observations, draw attention to it!

It just adds to the humour of a very successfulseries, that 50 years later, one can still have a heartylaugh at, and admire the dogged determination ofour ordinary countrymen to do their utmost forKing and Nation. Blessing and honour to theirmemories. It was only a couple of years ago, whenthe BBC screened a programme that portrayedLondon as it might have been a couple of monthsafter Hitler had walked in, had Dad’s Army as a lastresort failed, that I realised that, as a little boy at thetime, how life would have been much different, withmy father probably being taken away to work for theReich, my two younger brothers probably neverbeing born, and my mother then forced to eke out abare existence for herself and me, and I am humbledby all the effort that went into defending our way oflife.

Yours etc,Fr David Crowhurst

Sir,Jane Moth’s poem (Correspondence, Trinity 2019edition) reminded me of my own visit to St MaryMagdalene Church, Sandringham, a couple of yearsago.

As I entered the church I sensed a waft of incensein the air and wondered if it was used when HerMajesty attended services.

A steward welcoming visitors stood just insidethe door so I asked him: ‘Do I detect the smell ofincense and do you use it regularly during serviceshere?’

His response: ‘No, mate. That’s my after-shave.’Tim Stanley

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Dear Sir,Yesterday, when visiting yet another church, I wasstruck again by how our clergy seem to assumethat Prayer Book services are only for early risers.In places offering mixed styles of worship thePrayer Book service is invariably confined to the 8o’clock or 8.30 slot. One wonders why theservice cannot be offered later and the CommonWorship service be the first of the day. Surely it isnot beyond the capability of any cleric to rotatethe service times. Even devotees of our much-loved Prayer Book might like a lie-in occasionally.

Yours faithfully,Jane Moth (Mrs)

Dear Sir,I write this on the 30th June, the last day coveredby the Revd Richard Hoyal’s Prayer Calendarwhich he has provided over the last several years.I wouldn’t want this occasion to pass without ourexpression to him of our enormous thanks. Hisskilful selection of Society matters and hisinsightful commentary on the rich scripturalseasonality of the Prayer Book have marked eachpassing day. It has been one of the greater servicesto our membership.

Neil Inkley

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Branch Liaison, meetings attendedLondon & Southwark 1st September, Chichester 6thOctober, Oxford 1st December, London & Southwark23rd March, Branches’ Representative Council 6thApril, Blackburn 18th May, Ely 10th June, Guildford15th June, Oxford 21st July, Rochester 15thSeptember, Chichester 5th October. In 2020, I amalready to visit Guildford on 7th March, Salisbury21st April, Carlisle 20th June.

Commemoration of the martyrdom of ThomasCranmerOne hundred and twenty members and non-members and clergy, including Bishop HenrySouthern, Principal of Ripon College, attended thefirst National Festival on the anniversary, 21st March.The usual Matins at St Michael at the Northgate andensuing procession to the site of the martyrdom wasthis year followed by a lunch in Balliol College halland then by two lectures at Pusey House,interspersed by tea and followed by Evensong.

Membership brochures and stands, Glossaries andbookmarksAcrylic stands, each containing ten membershippacks, have now been either handed or sent out to401 separate church locations. Please order a stand-full of membership forms if your church wouldallow them to be displayed, and Glossaries andbookmarks if you could pass them on to those whowould use them.

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Travellers on the A46 from Lincolnto Grimsby will know theinfamous Cabourne hill: often

closed in the winter. They will also knowthe church of St Nicholas (LN7 6HU)that sits snuggly in the S bends at thefoot of the ascent. The church is ofSaxon foundation in a large, agriculturalparish of about twenty households. Thecongregation of six to eight are agathered congregation who cherish theworship of the Book of Common Prayer.The regular worship service is Matinswith hymns and a good sermon on thethird Sunday of the month at 10.30a.m.

This Easter day, BCP Communion was celebratedusing our Tudor chalice made by Peter Cahill of Hull,which was given on 23rd May 1553 when Edward VIdecreed every church be given a Communion cup. Itis kept safely in Lincoln Cathedral treasury and usedevery Easter. The church also possesses a 1970 chaliceand patten that were made by one of our late churchwardens, who was also a silversmith.

A major restoration led by Blomfield took placein the 1870s. Fortunately some ancient features wereretained. In the1960s, the church was again reroofedwith fine timber trusses constructed by the villagecarpenter, Mr Melton, and again in 2016, usinghandmade tiles from Barton-upon-Humber. Someancient features that can be seen include Saxon gravemarkers, a fine Saxon tower and arch, and a Normanfont with ropework.

Recent work in the churchyard has revealedfoundation stones to the east of the east window, sofurther research is needed to find out if there was alarger earlier building.

A perfectly formed smallCorporate Member

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Chichester East and Chichester West In October 2018, we met for ourannual Choral Communion atChichester Cathedral. Our Chairman, the Revd Dr MichaelBrydon, preached a sermon on thecalendar of the Prayer Book,drawing attention to some of themore unexpected commem-orations. At the lunch thatfollowed, he also delivered a light-hearted address on ‘The PrayerBook, the Railways and theChurch of England’.

The cathedral gathering waswhere we formally said goodbyeto Mrs Valerie Dane, who hasfaithfully served as the ChichesterWest Secretary for many years.Sadly, she was not well enough toattend in person, but a card,voucher and book weresubsequently presented to expressthe appreciation of themembership for her dedication.Over lunch, we were able towelcome the new westernSecretary, Mr Bradley Smith. He isthe manager of St Olav’s ChristianBookshop in Chichester, whichhas recently affiliated to the PrayerBook Society.

We are also pleased to welcomeMrs Abigail Sargent as the easternSecretary. Mrs Sargent was able toattend both the finals of theCranmer Awards and thecommemoration of the martyr-dom of Archbishop Cranmer inOxford.

In May, we had a service ofHoly Communion to markRestoration Day (also known asOak Apple Day) at St George’sCrowhurst. If Charles II had notbeen formally restored asmonarch, there would be noPrayer Book, so it felt like a goodthing to celebrate. We used all theprayers from the old state servicefor the 29th May and decorated apicture of Charles II with thetraditional oak leaves, in memoryof the king’s evasion of hisroundhead pursuers by hiding upthe Boscobel Oak. Many of thecongregation also sported oakleaves and, thanks to the culinaryskills of Mrs Valerie Mighall, a PBSmember of St George’s, thoseattending enjoyed a splendidlunch in the adjacent ParishRoom.

At the start of June, we enjoyedan Evensong and afternoon tea atSt Laurence’s, Guestling. This wasthe first time the PBS had metthere, so it was great to bewelcomed to a new church.

On the last Sunday of June, StLaurence’s, Catsfield had a serviceof Matins, but as it would havebeen in 1819. Prior to theinstallation of organs, most parishchurches would have had westgallery bands of the sort describedin Thomas Hardy’s Under theGreenwood Tree. The manuscriptmusic for the singers, windinstruments, stringed instrumentsand brass players still survives forCatsfield, so we were able to usesettings of the psalms, canticlesand anthems not heard for the last150 years. A recording of the TeDeum may be listened to on theSussex Harmony websitewww.sussexharmony.org.ukMost of the singers andinstrumentalists also wore period

costume, which definitelyenhanced the atmosphere.

The service also marked the lifeof the Catsfield naturalist, WilliamMarkwick, whose findings wereincluded in the second edition ofThe Natural History of Selborne. In thesermon, the Rector of Catsfielddrew out some of the referencesto creation in the Prayer Book.

At the end of June, PrayerBooks were presented to theChichester deacons. This wasswiftly followed by our AnnualGeneral Meeting, at St Mary’s,Barnham. The three officers werere-elected and we include apicture so everyone knows whatthey look like! Mr Smith, who isnot only the western Secretary butalso a church warden at Barnham,organised a superb cream teabefore Solemn Evensong andDevotions to mark Sea Sunday.Our chairman gave a mostinteresting sermon about the SeaPrayers.

CoventryThe Bishop of Coventry, the RtRevd Christopher Cocksworth,kindly preached at the Branchservice of Matins on 25th June.The choice of the church ofWhitchurch, remote by Midlandsstandards and sitting alone infields, might have seemedappropriate at midsummer but,

News from the Branches

Mr Bradley Smith, The Revd DrMichael Brydon, Mrs Abigail Sargent

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alas, the morning stood out, evenin a year of weather extremes, bybeing a continuous deluge ofbiblical proportions. We areespecially grateful to so many ofour members who left theirhomes and to the bishop whopreached a much-appreciatedPrayer-Book-based sermon andjoined us for lunch afterwards,and to the Revd Dr David Pymwho officiated.

ExeterThe Annual Meeting of the ExeterBranch was held in the CloisterGarth of Exeter Cathedral onSaturday 8th June.

In his report for the past year,the Chairman, Prebendary PaulHancock, highlighted the linksthat had been established betweenthe Branch and both the Dioceseand cathedral.

Last October, during ChoralEvensong, the Dean of Exeter, theVery Revd J. Greener, waspresented with 250 copies of theBook of Common Prayer, thefunding being provided by theEdith Matthias Trust and a bequestfrom the late Mrs Joan Irwin (whohad been a long-serving memberof the Branch, and its President)and her late husband, who was aPrebendary of the cathedral.

This presentation was inresponse to a request from theDean for copies of the BCP toreplace older copies, for use in thecathedral. During ChoralEvensong, the Dean preached onthe place and value of the BCP.Copies are also available for sale inthe cathedral shop, and the Deansaid they ‘seem to be a best seller’.

Last September, the Chairmanwas present in the Bishop ofExeter’s house for the pre-ordination gathering and socialwhen presentation copies of theBCP and Bishop John Pritchard’sbook, The Life and Work of a Priest,were given to each ordinand. This

event has become well establishedin recent years, with the fullsupport of Bishop Robert.

Our guest speaker was MrAndrew Millington, who hadbeen the Director of Music andOrganist of Exeter Cathedralbefore his retirement. His themewas, ‘The Psalms of David; thePsalter and its place in worship’.Andrew gave an historicaloverview of the psalms, whichrange in date from 1000—200BC,and not all were the work ofDavid. During David’s reign, therewere up to 400 singers in theTemple and the singing of thepsalms was usually accompaniedby stringed instruments.

Jewish families used the psalmsto recall their histories. The 150psalms fit into five volumes, eachwith a special category, and speakto every aspect of life; they werethe hymn book of our Lord JesusChrist.

The Christian Church’s use ofthe psalms saw some interestingchanges. Some monastic orderssang the complete Psalter everyday. Pointing was introduced inthe early nineteenth century. Inthe translation of the Hebrew intoEnglish for the Psalter we usetoday, we benefit from the beautyand skill of the work of WilliamTyndale, and Miles Coverdale, apast Bishop of Exeter.

Andrew concluded his talkwith an invitation to those presentto sing one of the psalmsunaccompanied—we passed histest!

GloucesterThe English Prayer Book lendsitself uniquely to both publicworship and private contem-plation. Each were combined in aquiet day held by the GloucesterDiocese Branch in July atColesbourne Park, where thoseattending could enjoy alandscaped Cotswold garden and

woodland adjoining the equallybeautiful and secluded medievalchurch of St James.

The day was led by the RevdCanon Dr Philip Thomas, whoprovided a series of threemeditations on the subject of‘Creation: living the narrative’,summarised beforehand as‘Christians habitually declare theirfaith in God as “maker of heavenand earth”, but for many thisbelief is problematic. Ourreflections on this quiet day willseek to make sense of the doctrineof Creation, and of “creation”itself. We will not seek to resolvecurrent controversies, nor mockthe endeavours of creationists. Theoutcomes we seek will beessentially biblical and practical,working towards a coherent viewof God and the world—and ourplace within it.’

The day began with MorningPrayer and ended with acelebration of Holy Communionand, in between, silence was kept(apart from the talks). Thespiritual refreshment offered bysuch an event was enthusiasticallyappreciated by those who came.

This was the second occasion aquiet day of this kind has beenheld in the Gloucester Diocese andthe structure appears to work verywell: rewarding and stimulating,without being too demanding. Forany others interested in holding asimilar event and benefiting fromthe Prayer Book as a spiritualresource in this way, it may behelpful to give an indication of thetimetable, which people found

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balanced and appropriate.Arriving at 10.30a.m. (giving

time for those coming fromfurther afield, and withrefreshments offered), Matins wassaid at 11.00, followed by the firstmeditation. There was then timefor reflection and lunch (peoplebrought their own), and thesecond meditation was scheduledfor 1.45p.m.; further quiet timewas followed by the thirdmeditation at 2.45, with HolyCommunion ensuing at 3.30,after which a cup of tea, anopportunity to speak, anddeparture. On both theseoccasions we were led by clergydeeply grounded in theology, whohad an exceptional ability tocommunicate and relate to peoplemore or less well versed and of awide range of ages.

LincolnOn Saturday 27th July, membersgathered at the magnificent ParishChurch of St James, Louth formeeting, discussion and prayer.Canon Andy Hawes asked thequestion, ‘What do you love aboutthe Prayer Book?’ The questionwas prompted by the observationof Professor Roger Scruton that‘there are few knockdownarguments for those who hold aconservative position in the faceof change’. His reasoning is thatthe reformer has programmes,schemes, theories that provideplausible reasons for change,whilst the ‘conservative’ looks toqualities such as loyalty, affectionand love to preserve all that isvalued and cherished. The PrayerBook Society has a ‘cosy feel’ dueto this shared ‘cherishing’. The keyquestion is, when these affectionsand loyalties are examined, arethey purely personal or are theyderived from essential qualities,teaching and spirituality thatcannot and will not be foundanywhere else in Anglicanism?

The discussion was lively,encouraging and indeedinspirational. It was resolved thatthere would be a working groupto plan events and activities. Thiswill meet at The Admiral Rodneyin Horncastle. Any memberwishing to join them, pleasecontact the editor. The meetingended with Evening Prayer, theofficiant being the rector, the RevdNicholas Brown.

NorwichIn March, Branch members wereinvited to the Church of St Peterand St Paul, Halvergate for a quitesplendid day of worship, reportedupon in the Trinity magazine byNick Butcher as a result of a dig inhis ribs! Thank you, Nick.

The Branch AGM was held inJune in the Church of St Martin,Houghton, within the Park ofHoughton Hall, the sometimehome of the first Prime Minister,Sir Robert Walpole and, since theearly nineteenth century, that ofthe Marquesses of Cholmondeley.The day started with the (verybrief) General Meeting, beforesung Eucharist, conducted by the incumbent, the Revd DrEdward Bundock, supported byhis organist and censer. Memberscould then take lunch in the caféat the Hall. After lunch, wereassembled in the box pews to hear Dr Bundock talk on ‘ThePrayer Book and Church Music’,followed by light refreshments,and then we finished a very goodday with Evensong.

At Petertide, we gavepresentation copies of the PrayerBook to fifteen ordinands, whichmay have been a record number inthis Diocese, at least in recentyears!

Our final event for the year willbe a meeting at the Church of StMary, Gissing, near the southernedge of the Diocese, where therewill be a talk on the extensive

restoration work that has takenplace, followed, as usual, byEvensong.

PeterboroughThe Branch has organised twoevents this year, both at thedelightful and welcoming PrayerBook Church at Easton Maudit,between Northampton andWellingborough. On 12th May, wehad a full Sung Matins on abeautiful, sunny day, with the bellsringing, the organ playing, and avolunteer choir under TonyEdwards. We were grateful for thegreat hospitality and to the RevdBen Lewis, Vicar of St Mark’sChurch in Wellingborough, whoconducted the service andpreached. The second service wasEvensong sung by thecongregation on 8th September,and the preacher was theArchdeacon of Northampton. Ourthanks to the PCC and thecongregation for their greathospitality.

Rochester

Ash Wednesday ComminationOn Wednesday, 6th March at11a.m., Revd Gary Owen, rectorof St Botolph’s Church,Lullingstone, conducted MorningPrayer followed by the Litany andCommination: the ‘Denouncing ofGod’s Anger and Judgementsagainst Sinners’, the servicesdirected by the Prayer Book foruse on Ash Wednesday. BranchMembers joined the Lullingstonecongregation for the said service.Visitors new to the church wereable to have a guided tour after theservice.

Regrettably, this is the last yearthat Revd Owen will lead theservice, as he is leaving theBenefice after nine years, duringwhich time he has given greatencouragement to the Prayer Bookin this Corporate Member church.

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Thirteenth-century wall paintingsand twentieth-century windowsOn Saturday, 11th May we visitedthe contrasting churches of StThomas à Becket, Capel and AllSaints, Tudeley. This proved to be asuccessful and popular meetingwith twenty-one members takingpart. For five of our number, itwas their first time attending aBranch activity. The rural churchesin the Kentish Weald aregeographically close together butoffer visitors very differing pointsof interest.

St Thomas à Becket is stillconsecrated and services areoccasionally held there, but it is inthe care of the ChurchesConservation Trust. Don Foreman,of the Friends of Capel Churchand a local historian, was ourguide to the church, which is aremarkable building for thethirteenth-century wall paintingsdominating the north wall of thenave. These were uncoveredduring restoration in 1927.

Around one side of theNorman window in the northwall, Cain is shown killing hisbrother Abel. On the other, thehand of God marks Cain on theforehead. The main narratives ofthe paintings along the naveconcern the entry into Jerusalemand the Last Supper. The churchtower had to be restored after afire in 1639 and the chancel andsouth wall were rebuilt in thenineteenth century, so we willnever know what scenes they mayhave depicted.

Don also told us the history ofthe east window, which wasinstalled in 1905 as a memorial toCaptain Leslie Martin. It wouldseem that this member of a localfamily had a fairly undistin-guished military career, beingplagued by ill health, but he wasobviously fondly remembered byhis siblings who commissionedthe triple-lancet window, ‘Christthe King’, designed by HoratioWalter Lonsdale.

From Capel, we went on to theGeorge and Dragon, convenientlysituated between the twochurches, where we were able toenjoy a leisurely lunch and muchconversation before carrying on toTudeley.

All Saints is the only parishchurch to have had all itswindows decorated by theRussian artist Marc Chagall, incollaboration with glassworkerCharles Marq of Reims. PatriciaDunkin Wedd told us how the eastwindow was commissioned as amemorial tribute to Sarah, thedaughter of Sir Henry and Ladyd’Avigdor-Goldsmid,who died in a sailingaccident off Rye at theage of twenty-one.Chagall did not visit thechurch until theinstallation in 1967 butwhen he saw thechurch, he said, ‘It’smagnificent. I will dothem all,’ which he didover the next fifteenyears.

After our good lunch, wewondered if our party would dojustice to the very excellent teawe’d booked, but our fears wereunfounded. After tea, the vicar,Revd Dr Jeremy Ive, led us inEvening Prayer as the lateafternoon sun lit the blue andgold glass.

We were welcomed to All Saintsby Chloe Teacher. She has a veryspecial connection with thechurch. Sarah was her sister.

SalisburyOn Saturday 22nd June, over 40members of the Salisbury Branchattended the summer meeting atNewhouse, Redlynch, the homeof Branch member, GeorgeJeffreys.

This large estate house built in1609 was designed in a Y shape torepresent the three arms of theTrinity and is one of only two‘trinity’ houses in Britain. TheGeorgian wings were added in theeighteenth century.

The speaker was thetheologian, Professor DavidCatchpole, whose topic was ‘Onpraying the Prayer of HumbleAccess in our time’. After questiontime and tea, members attended StMary’s Church, Redlynch forEvensong conducted by RevdDavid Bacon.

For more details on Newhouse,please visit: https://www.newhouseestate.co.uk/weddings

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221 £9.99The Faith We Confess: An Exposition of the 39Articles. (2009) Sbk, 236pp. Gerald Bray talks thereader through the sometimes hidden, sometimesforgotten, sometimes ignored bases for Anglicanismand while doing so challenges those of us who havebecome sloppy about our faith.

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RochesterThe Branch heat of the CranmerAwards will be held at The JuddSchool, Brook Street, Tonbridge,Kent, TN9 2PN on Wednesday,13th November 2019.Refreshments will be availablefrom 5p.m. with the competitionstarting at 6p.m.

The guest speaker and prize-giver will be historian, leaderwriter, political and religiousaffairs columnist for The DailyTelegraph, and contributing editorfor the Catholic Herald, Tim Stanley.Tim’s other claim to fame is thathe is an old boy of Judd School.

Owen Marshall, the winner ofthe Junior section at this year’s

national Final held at LambethPalace, will repeat his recitationfrom the Gospel for Good Friday.

If you would like to be part ofthe audience, please contact thesecretaries, Mr and Mrs G. E.Comer on 01732 461462 or e-mail joannacomer@btinternet.com

SheffieldOn Sunday 27th October 2019 at11.00a.m., Beauchief Abbey willbe welcoming members of thePrayer Book Society to a specialcombined service of Matins andHoly Communion (BCP) lastingabout an hour. We very muchhope that members of Branches

not too far away will join us.Sandwiches, cake and hot drinkswill be available after the service.

The Abbey, a ‘liberty’ churchand a Corporate Member of thePrayer Book Society, dates fromthe twelfth century and is said tobe the oldest building in Sheffield.Some idea of its history and therole it plays today will be given byone of its Governing Committeeto visitors who are interested.

For anyone using sat nav, theaddress of the Abbey is BeauchiefAbbey Lane, Sheffield S8 7BD.

Please let us know if you arecoming (by the previous Thursdayif possible) by email torowood@waitrose.com or bytelephone to 01226 764092(Sheffield Branch Secretary) or0114 2353263 (Pam Hodgson,Beauchief Abbey Committee).

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Branch Contacts

• BATH & WELLS:Mr Matthew Butler, Top Floor Flat2 Henrietta Street, Bath BA2 6LLTel: 07985-956262matthew_john_butler@hotmail.com

• BIRMINGHAM:Please contact the office, CopyholdFarm

• BLACKBURN:Mr Christopher Norton, 26 Handsworth Road, BlackpoolLancashire FY1 2RQTel: 01253 623338cjnblackpool@btinternet.com

• BRISTOL:Mr Roger Tucker, 18 SpringfieldGrove, Westbury Park, Bristol BS67XQ Tel: 0117 9248629 email: rogertucker@live.co.ukMembership Secretary: Mrs JoyceMorris, 29 St John’s Road, Clifton,Bristol BS8 2HD

• CANTERBURY:Mr Derek Tee, 111 Rough CommonRoad, Canterbury CT2 9DATel: 01227 463903 derekmrtee@gmail.com

• CARLISLE:Membership Secretary: Mrs KateEast, 10 Fernwood Drive, KendalLA9 5BUTel: 01539 725055

• CHELMSFORD:Mr J. C. Gibb, 24 Glen Road, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex SS9 1EUTel: 01702 475530jcgibb@jamesgibbandco.com

• CHESTER:Mr J. Baldwin, Rosalie Farm, ChurchMinshull, Nantwich, Cheshire CW56EFTel: 01270 528487mdsc187@aol.com

• CHICHESTER:CHICHESTER EASTMrs Abigail Sargent, Marsh Hall,Church Lane, Pevensey East, SussexBN24 5LDTel: 01323 743301abigailsargent@btinternet.com CHICHESTER WESTMr Bradley Smith, The Little Yard,Barnham Court Farm, Church Lane,Barnham, West Sussex PO22 0BPTel: 01243 554734 Mob: 07931527724bradley.smith4@gmail.com

• COVENTRY:Mr David East, 38 The Park Paling,Cheylesmore, Coventry CV3 5LJ Tel: 024 7650 4339demeasts@hotmail.com

• DERBY:Branch Secretary: The Revd Fr BruceJohnson, 31 Porterhouse Road,Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3FL Prayerbooksoc.derby@gmail.com Tel: 01773 449001

• DURHAM:Mrs Rosemary Hall, 23 BeattyAvenue, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE23QN Tel: 0191 285 7534hallrosyhall@gmail.com

• ELY:Mr P. K. C. White, The OrchardHouse, 12 Thrift’s Walk, OldChesterton, Cambridge CB4 1NRTel: 01223 324176pkcwhite@waitrose.com

• EXETER:Mr Peter Gaston, 73 West Cliff ParkDrive, Dawlish EX7 9ELTel: 01626 439160petergaston1951@icloud.com

• GLOUCESTER:Miss S.M. Emson, 38 GloucesterRoad, Stratton, Cirencester GL7 2JYTel: 01285 654591susanemson@gmail.com

• GUILDFORD:Dr John Verity, 65 Chart Lane,Reigate RH2 7EATel: 01737 210792 hjverity@doctors.org.uk

• HEREFORD:Mr Noel Manns, Llangrove House,Near Ross on Wye, HerefordshireHR9 5HATel: 01989 770297

• LEEDS:Please contact the office, CopyholdFarm

• LEICESTER:Mrs R. Packe-Drury-Lowe, 35 GreenLane, Seagrave, Loughborough LE127LUTel: 01509 815262ritaphillips@gmail.com

• LICHFIELD:Please contact the office, CopyholdFarm

• LINCOLN:Please contact the office, CopyholdFarm

• LIVERPOOL:Please contact the office, CopyholdFarm

• LONDON & SOUTHWARK: Mr Paul Meitner, c/o the PBS office,Copyhold FarmTel: 020 7589 9193paul@meitner.co.uk

• MANCHESTER:Please contact the office, CopyholdFarm

• NEWCASTLE:Mrs Rosemary Hall, 23 BeattyAvenue, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE23QNTel: 0191 285 7534hallrosyhall@gmail.com

• NORWICH:Mrs A. Wilson, The Old Rectory,Burston Road, Dickleburgh, Diss,Norfolk IP21 4NNTel: 01379 740561

• OXFORD:Mr J. B. Dearing, 27 Sherman Road,Reading, Berkshire RG1 2PJTel: 0118 958 0377john.dearing@gpwild.co.uk

• PETERBOROUGH:Mr Alan Palmer, 2 Lime Street, Irthlingborough, NorthamptonshireNN9 5SHalan.palmer4@btinternet.com

• PORTSMOUTH: Please seeWinchester & Portsmouth

• ROCHESTER:Mr G. & Mrs J. Comer27 Long Meadow, Riverhead,Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 2QYTel: 01732 461462joannacomer@btinternet.com

• ST ALBANS:Dr Matthew A. Clarke, 12 Kilby Road,Stevenage SG1 2LTTel: 07866 430604austin81clarke@gmail.com

• ST EDMUNDSBURY & IPSWICH:Mr Anthony C. Desch, 4 Byfield Way,Bury St Edmunds IP33 2SNTel: 01284 755355anthonycdesch@gmail.com

• SALISBURY:Mrs Lucy Pearson, 10 Briar Close,Wyke, Gillingham, Dorset SP8 4SSTel: 01747 825392lucypearson@waitrose.com

• SHEFFIELD:Dr Rosemary Littlewood, RailwayHouse, Hazlehead, Sheffield S36 4HJTel: 01226 764092rowood@waitrose.com

• SODOR & MAN:Please contact the office, CopyholdFarm

• SOUTHWARK:Please see London & Southwark

• SOUTHWELL & NOTTINGHAM: Mr A.F. Sunman, 1 Lunn Lane, SouthCollingham, Newark NG23 7LPTel: 01636 893975adriansunman@lineone.net

• TRURO:Mr J. St Brioc Hooper, 1 TregarneTerrace, St Austell PL25 4BETel: 01726 76382j.stbrioc@btinternet.com

• WINCHESTER & PORTSMOUTH:Mrs Nikki Sales, 19 Heath RoadSouth, Locks Heath, SouthamptonSO31 6SJTel: 01489 570899

• WORCESTER:Please contact the office, CopyholdFarm

• YORK:Mrs Margaret Hammersley, 5 Maplehurst Avenue, York YO31 8JATel: 01904 636512ajhmeh@btinternet.com

• NORTH WALES:The Revd Neil Fairlamb, 5 Tros-yr-afon, Beaumaris, Anglesey LL58 8BNTel: 01248 811402rheithor@spamarrest.com

• SOUTH WALES:Please contact the office, CopyholdFarm

• CHANNEL ISLANDS: Please seeWinchester & Portsmouth

• OVERSEAS MEMBERS:Mrs Sally Tipping, Old Orchard,Burgmanns Hill, Lympstone,Exmouth EX8 5HNtippingsc@gmail.comTel: 01395 267835

AFFILIATED BRANCHES• IRELAND: Please contact the office,

Copyhold Farm• SOUTH AFRICA: Please contact the

office, Copyhold Farm

SISTER SOCIETIES• AUSTRALIA:

Miss Margaret Steel, 9/63 O'SullivanRoad, Rose Bay, NSW 2029mste8801@bigpond.net.auMr Max Boyce1/41 Glencairn Avenue, CamberwellVictoria 3124, Australiamax.boyce@bigpond.com

• CANADA:The Prayer Book Society of Canada,P.O. Box 38060, 1430 Prince ofWales Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K2C3Y7, Canada www.prayerbook.ca

• SCOTLAND:Mr J. C. Lord, 11 Melrose Gardens,Glasgow G20 6RBTel: 0141 946 5045jcl30@btinternet.com

• UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:The Prayer Book Society, P.O. Box 137Jenkintown, PA 19046-0137, USA www.pbsusa.org

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